AASCU Program Sponsors

AASCU gratefully acknowledges the support of the following corporate partners. By supporting AASCU, corporate partners help make an accessible, affordable, exceptional college education available to all students.

AALI is committed to the broad development and support of leadership in higher education by creating and implementing programs and other forms of assistance that enable academic leaders in various administrative positions to be successful in their roles and to advance the institutions they serve.

Academic Search is an executive search firm dedicated to serving higher education institutions and related organizations and is the only search firm in the nation with a formal relationship to a premier leadership development program. As the subsidiary of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI), Academic Search provides substantial financial support to a number of signature AASCU leadership programs (including the Millennium Leadership Institute and Becoming a Provost Academy) through grants by AALI.

Abound is a new college guidance system from Colleges of Distinction, designed specifically for degree-seeking adults. We connect students with programs best suited to their academic and career goals, and we help institutions attract students most likely to thrive in their undergraduate and graduate programs. Abound applies a rigorous, qualitative rubric to recognize adult-serving programs that excel at the Four As: Access, Affordability, Acceleration, and Advancement.

As a mission-driven, member organization, Abound does not sell leads, ads or subscriptions. Our member institutions can use their recognition from a trusted, independent third party to:

BDO is a professional services firm providing assurance, tax, and advisory services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. BDO serves clients worldwide with 73,854 people working out of 1,500 offices across 162 countries. BDO serves colleges and universities through its National Not for Profit & Higher Education Industry practice. Our Higher Education professionals’ have vast experience serving as both external advisors and as senior leadership within Higher Education offering our clients a unique perspective that merges recognized industry best practices with real world, practical implementation strategies. Our services are tailored to your organization, and we aim to support colleges and universities by ensuring mission and financial sustainability through a wide range of services. BDO’s dedicated industry approach provides experienced teams who understand the Higher Education industry and serve our clients as they address current and emerging challenges, along with developing strategies for future success.

Colleges and universities are striving to ensure student success by providing a range of services, including early academic intervention and improved advising and degree planning. These strategies alone fail to address issues related to course access – a key lever to ensuring students have clear pathways to graduation.

By engaging with Ad Astra Information Systems, institutions can improve student outcomes by aligning existing academic resources – faculty, classroom space, and course offerings – to create schedules that allow students to take the courses they need when they need them. From orientation to degree completion, ensuring conflict-free course access accelerates velocity to completion, leading to more on-time graduates, with the added benefit of increased efficiencies across your campus.

The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) believes that all college students deserve an extraordinary education and that faculty members play a critical role in their success. In partnership with institutions of higher education nationwide, ACUE supports and credentials faculty members in the use of evidence-based teaching practices that drive student engagement, retention, and learning. Faculty members who complete ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices earn a Certificate in Effective College Instruction endorsed by the American Council on Education. ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice connects college educators from across the country through member forums, podcasts, and updates on the latest developments in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

AGB Search focuses exclusively on higher education leadership. We identify interim appointments to preserve continuity, full search services to help institutions navigate the hiring process, transition assistance to set up leaders for long-term success, and offer compensation evaluation services to assess fair competitive salaries. Each member of our consulting team brings years of experience as a higher education leader to the firm. We not only understand the demands of leadership, but also are deeply invested in supporting the next generation of leaders.

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge believes that more young people need to participate in our electoral process. Recognizing colleges and universities for their commitment to increasing student voting rates, this national awards program encourages institutions to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship. Hundreds of colleges and universities have joined the Challenge and are committed to making democratic participation a core value on their campuses. Together, they are cultivating generations of engaged citizens, who are essential to a healthy democracy. To learn more or to sign up, visit
allinchallenge.org. Participation is open to all accredited, degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States.

The Andrew Goodman Foundation works to make young voices and votes a powerful force in democracy. We partner with colleges and universities to cultivate civic leaders, remove voting barriers, and mobilize student voters to take action by creating a more civicminded campus culture. Join us as we inspire more young people to pursue social change work, activate the important lessons of the past, and sustain today’s effective social action. Vote Everywhere is a national, nonpartisan, civic engagement movement of student leaders and university partners. The program provides extensive training, resources, as well as a peer network to support its Ambassadors while they work to register voters, bring down voting barriers, and tackle important social justice issues on their college campuses.

Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is in the customer service business across food, facilities and uniforms, wherever people work, learn, recover and play. United by a passion to serve, our more than 270,000 employees deliver experiences that enrich and nourish the lives of millions of people in 22 countries around the world every day. Aramark is recognized among the Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE and the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute.

We are a single source provider to higher education institutions for the development of dining and facility management solutions. We offer a complete and innovative array of dining services that include master planning, culinary development and venue design, catering, concessions, and residential, quick-serve and express dining concepts. Our knowledge and expertise extends to a broad range of facilities services including maintenance, custodial, grounds, energy management, capital project management, and building commissioning.

Our custom campus solutions are currently at work at more than 600 colleges and universities across North America.

In 2012, the Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN) launched Campus Vote Project (CVP) to expand our work around student voting issues. CVP works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Our goal is to help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote. CVP works with schools to deliver vital voting information and promote candidate and issue forums, debate watch parties, and marches to the polls as part of a campus culture of voting.

Code Ocean is a computational reproducibility platform enabling researchers to run, share, and discover code in an executable, cloud-based environment. Researchers, engineers, developers, and scientists can link executable code and data to articles published in academic journals and conference proceedings while retaining copyright. Code Ocean assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to support citable attribution and partners with publishers to add working code to the research outputs readily available from research articles. Code Ocean was founded in 2015 with the goal of saving researchers time and advancing science by making the world's scientific code more reusable, executable, and reproducible.

Tell your story. Deepen your engagement. Collaboratory is a Software as a Service that empowers higher education institutions to track, analyze and share community engagement and public service data to strengthen partnerships, activities, and collaborations with communities.

The College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, the College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success — including the SAT® and the Advanced Placement Program®. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools.

At EAB, we are making education smarter. We harness the collective power of more than 1,200 educational institutions to generate insights that help education leaders fulfill their mission and enable their students to succeed. Then we work alongside administrators, advisors, faculty and students through our research forums, technologies, and services to apply and hardwire those insights. We help leaders find and enroll the right students through enrollment marketing and financial aid optimization. We support student success through our student success management system, which helps advisors, faculty, and staff guide students through school and to the post-graduate outcomes they want. And we provide institutions with the strategic guidance and data they need to improve mission-critical outcomes and prepare for tomorrow’s students.

EduNav is a leading developer of student success and resource optimization software for colleges and universities. Our solutions drive student success by unifying and optimizing the planning, scheduling and registration experience of your students. EduNav automatically generates a personalized, always up-to-date optimal path to completion for every student. What’s more – it proactively alerts students when they make a decision that will lengthen time to completion – before the action is finalized. EduNav is a Complete College America 2016 Guided Pathways to Success award winner.

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier provides web-based, digital solutions — among them
ScienceDirect,
Scopus,
Research Intelligence and
ClinicalKey — and publishes over 2,500 journals, including
The Lancet and
Cell, and more than 35,000 book titles, including a number of iconic reference works. Elsevier is part of
RELX Group, a world-leading provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

At nonprofit ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating high-quality assessments based on rigorous research. Institutions of higher education rely on ETS to help them demonstrate student learning outcomes and promote student success and institutional effectiveness.

Huron (NASDAQ: HURN) is a global professional services firm committed to achieving sustainable results in partnership with its clients. The Company was founded in 2002 with about 200 people and it has grown to more than 2,900 today. Our people come from industry, academia, healthcare, and other consulting firms. The company brings depth of expertise in strategy, technology, operations, advisory services and analytics to drive lasting and measurable results in the higher education, academic medical, healthcare, life sciences and select commercial sectors. As the premier higher education industry partner, Huron has worked with more than 500 higher education & research institutions, including all of the top 100 comprehensive research universities, to establish a stronger foundation for transformative change.

Net Impact mobilizes new generations to use their skills and careers to drive transformational social and environmental change. Our programs—delivered from our headquarters, as well as globally through our student and professional chapters—give our members the skills, experiences and connections that will allow them to have the greatest impact now and throughout their careers.

Over 100,000 strong, our emerging leaders take on social challenges, protect the environment and invent new products and orient business toward the greater good. In short, we help our members turn their passions into a lifetime of world-changing action.

The New York Times provides a vibrant daily record of history in the making, igniting student interest by linking learning to living – serving the ideals of today’s demanding educational aims by spurring critical thinking, increasing national and global awareness and fostering a more informed and engaged citizenry. The New York Times in Education offers a wealth of resources, activities and events to engage students in and out of the classroom.

OpenMind is a free, psychology-based educational platform designed to depolarize campuses and foster mutual understanding across differences. OpenMind guides students through an interactive, five step journey that explores the inner workings of the mind and the psychological roots of our political differences. It brings theory to practice by teaching students behavioral interventions and practical techniques to have more civil and constructive conversations. Over the course of the platform, students learn to cultivate civic virtues such as intellectual humility, open-mindedness, and civility. After completing OpenMind, students come away better prepared for democratic citizenship in a pluralistic society. Since launching in November 2017, OpenMind is being used in more than 115 college classrooms. OpenMind can be a valuable addition to first-year experience programs, individual course curricula, or extracurricular programming.

With decades of experience, we work with higher education leaders to successfully meet the challenges of access, achievement and affordability. Our partnership starts with a shared understanding of the opportunity for improvement, as well as the critical need to measure effectiveness. We work with you to implement innovative, results-oriented solutions that accelerate student and institutional success. At Pearson, a commitment to efficiency is integrated into everything we do. Whether it’s collaboration on college and career readiness initiatives, optimizing your online and blended learning programs, or implementing workforce education solutions, we are on a mission – yours.

Phone2Action is the world’s leading technology company for public policy engagement. Our user-friendly platform simplifies the process of gathering people around a policy issue and mobilizing them to voice their opinions to lawmakers. Directly from their phone, tablet or desktop, people can discover advocacy campaigns and connect with their legislators via direct calls, email, regulatory forms, and social media. Since its founding in 2012, Phone2Action’s technology has enabled more than 11 million people to advocate for important issues, resulting in over 35 million legislator connections, with 47 new connections every minute.

The REGISTRY is the nation’s dominant firm in the interim executive space. It is also the only membership-based interim placement firm, which provides a business model that preempts the need for expensive, time-consuming, and potentially disruptive open-market interim searches. Over the last quarter-century, the REGISTRY has defined and institutionalized “best practices” for the engagement of interim executives. Now with over 850 Members, the REGISTRY is more prepared than ever to respond to the interim needs and requirements of colleges and universities in every sector and throughout the nation. In addition, the REGISTRY can immediately generate interim candidate pools for the entire spectrum of executive positions--presidents/chancellors, all cabinet positions, and deans. But most importantly, the REGISTRY provides the very best interim talent, and its Members continue to achieve the very best results for our college and university clients.

The mission of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is to complete President Reagan’s unfinished work and to preserve the timeless principles he championed: individual liberty, economic opportunity, global democracy and national pride. Specifically, the mission of the new Reagan Institute operating as an entity of the Foundation from both the Reagan Library in California as well as in Washington, D.C., is to move well beyond the Foundation’s mission to preserve the memory of our 40th President. The Reagan Institute proactively promotes his ideals, vision, and leadership example for the benefit of generations to come through youth education and academic alliances, scholarly work, and substantive, issue-driven forums.

Ruffalo Noel Levitz brings together the unparalleled experience and industry-leading research of our two legacy companies to provide you with innovative solutions for meeting your enrollment challenges. We're passionate about enrollment: about understanding trends, investigating the most effective approaches, and helping our campus partners put them into action to meet objectives. Your success is our success.

Why should you work with us? Your challenges may not be unique, but your campus is. We aim to learn the dynamics of your enrollment situation, your campus, and your culture. Starting with assessment and consultation by experienced enrollment managers, we’ll continue on to develop—in partnership with you—a custom strategy for your institution.

You need implementable strategies. As experienced enrollment practitioners ourselves, we know you’re seeking practical, implementable insight—not theoreticals that might not fit within your reality. That means we’ll offer innovative, specific, up-to-the-minute approaches that also happen to be backed by the richest data in the industry, derived from our work with hundreds of diverse institutions.

You want perspective beyond your campus. We also understand that you want to know what else is happening “out there,” whether you’re looking to answer questions from your board or just to gain better context for your situation. Gain that perspective by accessing our unrivaled resources: survey and benchmarking research, consolidated data findings, and expert recommendations on every facet of enrollment.

Your success depends on engagement rather than recruitment. It’s been said that admissions and enrollment isn’t about recruiting students, but about engaging future graduates. In today’s challenging environment, how many admission strategies have student success and graduation as the metric by which their viability is measured? Ours do.

You should focus on the relationship; we’ll support that from initial awareness through to graduation—and beyond. Through our marketing services, we’ll do the heavy lifting in your communications and your staff can build relationships with the right students. We’ll engage those students with the right information (the information most relevant to them) at the right time—our focus is on logistics so your staff can actually focus on students.

Salesforce.org is a nonprofit social enterprise with a mission to empower its community of stakeholders to accelerate impact in a whole new way. Salesforce.org impacts thousands of organizations and the millions of people they serve by delivering the world’s best nonprofit and educational technology solutions at affordable rates. Salesforce.org leverages a unique self-sustaining model to generously re-invest revenue generated back into the community. Salesforce.org offers a unique set of end-to-end solutions for higher education that allow institutions to connect with constituents in new ways using social, mobile, and cloud technologies. Built for the social and mobile era,
Salesforce for Higher Ed enables colleges and universities to become Connected Campuses, placing students at the center of everything they do, and achieving breakthrough performance across the student lifecycle. Institutions across the globe are using Salesforce for recruiting, student success, advancement, marketing, community engagement, and much more.

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, enhances the student experience on campus. By focusing on services that improve quality of life, we impact our partners’ ability to attract, engage and retain students. From dining programs that meet the preferences and lifestyles of today’s student to purpose-built environments designed to promote the mission of the institution, our commitment to improving quality of life spans the entire campus experience.

Strada Education Network℠ is a national nonprofit dedicated to improving lives by catalyzing more direct and promising pathways between education and employment. We engage partners across education, nonprofits, business and government to focus relentlessly on students’ success throughout all phases of their working lives. Together, we address critical college to career challenges through strategic philanthropy, research and insights, and mission-aligned affiliates — all focused on advancing the universal right to realized potential we call Completion With a Purpose®.

Student Opportunity Center (S.O.C.) is a platform which partners with organizations, government agencies, and companies to provide over 10,000 of the best high-impact opportunities that are of growing importance to students (but which are often neglected by university service providers) such as student conferences, journals, civic engagement, and undergraduate research opportunities. We then use proprietary technology to finds and organize local and regional opportunities specific to the institution’s needs. The S.O.C. community and administrative dashboard complements this with customizable features to manage, monitor, and conduct assessment reports within and across university communities.

We were founded nearly a century ago as the vision of one of history’s great philanthropists, Andrew Carnegie, to make a difference in the lives of teachers. Since then, we have helped millions at academic, medical, research and cultural organizations — the people whose work makes the world a better place — retire with financial security.

Today, we are a global asset manager with $915 billion in assets under management. Our investment model and long-term approach aim to benefit the five million people and more than 16,000 institutions we serve.

As we pursue powerful performance that can help drive better outcomes for our clients, we are committed to growing, innovating, continually improving and building on our proud history of diversity and inclusion.

Over 150,000 bills are introduced across the 50 state legislatures, DC, and Congress, every year. Each has the potential to impact your higher education institution. Yet, to actively follow these important issues has historically required significant amounts of time, energy, and financial resources.

TrackBill is the solution higher education government relations professionals trust for simple, fast, mobile access to state and federal legislative information. Colleges and universities of all sizes rely on TrackBill to identify bills within their areas of interest, track their activity, and report this information to their stakeholders -- all without blowing the budget.

TurboVote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that helps students engage successfully in their democracy. Institutions nationwide use TurboVote to strategically - and easily - promote and monitor voter engagement. Through TurboVote, students can register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and receive reminders with important election information, dates and deadlines.

VitalSource® is a global leader in building, enhancing and delivering digital content. VitalSource offers best-in-breed technology, enterprise-level scalability, industry leading analytics, and the broadest catalog in higher education. The Bookshelf® platform is the most used e-textbook delivery platform in higher education with over 1000 top publishers available to Bookshelf users.

Founded in 1974, World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals achieve their higher education and professional goals by evaluating and advocating for the recognition of international education qualifications.

With a staff representing 37 nations and speaking over 40 languages, WES has delivered evaluations to more than 1.5 million people worldwide that are recognized by more than 2,500 educational, business, and governmental institutions throughout the U.S. and Canada.

WES has set the standard of excellence in the field of international mobility with our world-class credential evaluations, research, training, and ongoing support for international students and skilled immigrants in the U.S. and Canada.